Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 5700 XT 8G, 8GB GDDR6, 2x HDMI, 2x DP, full retail (11293-03-40G)

It's been a while since the Radeon RX 5700 XT launched, and all vendors have had their custom designs out for a while. Now it looks like a second round of new designs that are more refined and tweaked to the max are incoming. The Sapphire RX 5700 XT Nitro+ Special Edition is such a model. Sapphire took the extremely successful Nitro+ and bumped up the clock speeds for both GPU and memory. With a maximum boost clock of 2035 MHz, the card is the fastest air-cooled RX 5700 XT on the market; only the watercooled PowerColor Liquid Devil is clocked higher. What is unique to the Nitro+ SE is that its memory is overclocked, too.

Sapphire's Radeon RX 5700 XT Nitro+ looks great; it introduces a fresh new style for the series. The cooler is dominated by straight lines with black as the primary color and some silver accents. The RGB functionality has been improved, too, by adding more control options to Sapphire's TRIXX software. Out of the box, Sapphire has overclocked their card to 1905 MHz rated Boost. This translates into a 3% performance improvement over the AMD reference design, which is similar to other Navi custom designs, but the differences are in the single-digit percentage range, which probably isn't enough to base your buying decision on.